The mutual construction of statistics and society / edited by Ann Rudinow Sætnan, Heidi Mork Lomell, and Svein Hammer.
| Other author | Saetnan, Ann Rudinow. |
| Other author | Lomell, Heidi Mork. |
| Other author | Hammer, Svein. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, |
| Description | xiv, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge advances in research methods ; 2 Routledge advances in research methods 2. ^A1063027 |
| Contents | Numbers : their relation to power and organization / Jon Hovland -- Words and numbers : for a sociology of the statistical argument / Alain Desrosières -- Sociology in the making : statistics as a mediator between the social sciences, practice, and the state / Christopher Kullenberg -- Governing by indicators and outcomes : a neo-liberal governmentality? / Svein Hammer -- Ethnicity : differences and measurements / Ellen Balka and Kjetil Rodje -- Seeing like citizens : unofficial understandings of official racial categories in a Brazilian university / Luisa Farah Schwartzman -- Ideas in action : "human development" and "capability" as intellectual boundary objects / Asunción Lera St. Clair -- Labeling and tracking the criminal in mid-nineteenth century England and Wales : the relationship between governmental structures and creating official numbers / Chris Williams -- From categorization to public policy : the multiple roles of electronic triage / Ellen Balka -- Making sense of numbers : the presentation of crime statistics in the Oslo police annual reports 1950-2008 / Heidi Mork Lomell -- Statistics on a website : governing schools by numbers / Svein Hammer and Sigrunn Tvedten -- Locating the worths of performance indicators : performing transparencies and accountabilities in health care / Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent and Roland Bal -- Constructing mirrors, constructing patients--with high stakes statistics / Gunnhild Tøndel -- GIS in practice : domestication of statistics in policing / Helene I. Gundhus. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010004307 |
| ISBN | 9780415873703 |
| ISBN | 0415873703 |
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